Jens Bley & Kay Hartkopf 
SmartSquare 
An interdisciplinary guided tour of an urban testbed

Smart Square – an interdisciplinary guided tour of an urban testbed

Smart Square is an urban testbed in the emerging domain of “Smart Culture in Smart Cities”. The square is the so-called Domplatz (Cathedral Square), the location of the founding fortification Hammaburg, in the inner city of Hamburg, Germany.
Smart Square is a “Smart Service City” project with multiple-stakeholder perspectives on the activation of this culturally significant inner-city square by means of digital cultural storytelling, data analytics, simulation and service innovation.
Smart Square is a joint project of Hafen City University and the Archaeological Museum Hamburg in cooperation with the digital cluster Hamburg@Work. Funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF).